Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A sudden unforeseen crisis that requires immediate action (9)
  2. 5. Rock that in its molten form issues from volcanos (4)
  3. 8. One of the large landmasses of the earth (plural) (10)
  4. 9. The branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust (14)
  5. 10. Reduced to liquid form by heating (6)
  6. 11. A cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption (7)
  7. 13. A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet (plural) (9)

Down

  1. 1. A port city in Japan on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu (4)
  2. 2. The largest ___ in the world (12)
  3. 4. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff (9)
  4. 6. A measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration (11)
  5. 7. A tremor occurring ___ the main shock of an earthquake (10)
  6. 12. The residue that remains when something is burned (3)